NAME

INTRODUCTION

This document describes the status and feature-set of the currently
available filtergen backends.

IPTABLES

Most development is done first against the iptables driver. It
supports reject, masquerading, transparent proxying, logging (with
text) and sub-groups, all of which should work fine (though the latter
has only recently been fixed).

IPCHAINS

The ipchains driver supports all of the above features, too. Its state
model is much weaker though, of course. The forwarding support should
work OK, though it is not possible to support "local"-only packets.

IPFILTER

The ipfilter backend is incomplete. It supports accept, drop, reject
and logging, but not masq, transproxy or sub-groups. It should be easy
for someone with knowledge of ipfilter to add support for the other
features. Options for OpenBSD "pf" features and syntax would be nice,
too. It has received no testing; I don’t even know if the generated
filters are syntactically correct.

CISCO

The cisco driver is in roughly the same sort of state as the ipfilter
one. Additionally, because of the limitations of IOS ACLs, it supports
only a limited set of features. It cannot support reject or
transparent proxying, and may not be able to support masquerading
either. An option for reflexive (stateful) ACLs would be very useful.
I understand that Cisco PIX firewalls use a variant of this syntax --
it would be very nice to support them too.